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massacre. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> but this is still a season of hope, and michael feinstein is just the one to bring you music for the holidays. ♪ so have yourself a merry little christmas now ♪ >> all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday," december 22nd, 2012. captioning funded by cbs everyone is in the holiday spirit. >> good morning. welcome to the weekend. >> welcome to the weekend. >> the holiday weekend. >> the holiday weekend. hopefully you're off, beginning the big vacation. this morning we've got a lot on our plate. you will meet the legendary producer cameron macintosh, he
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brought "les mis" to broadway and now to the big screen. patsy's restaurant's chef scott will dish up a special treat. first our top story. whatever you've been dreaming of if you're in the northeastern corner of the country, it's going to be a white christmas and then some. a powerful storm has dumped a foot of snow in parts of the midwest and the great lakes. the storm is blamed for deaths in at least five states and has knocked out power for thousands of people in northern new york. so we want to get the latest from our own lonnie quinn. lon, good morning to you. >> hey, look guys. travel problemdelays will be a prochblt that's your storm right there. it's the same storm yesterday
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that affected the northeast as well but it was this portion right here. it was all rain that barreled through with big winds. today with colder air being pulled in on the backside of this low, yeah we're down below freezing for a lot of you. here's the kicker. all right? we've had bidder storms. places like buffalo, syracuse you're in the bull's eye right here. up to 8 inches of snow. the big kicker here the pressure grading, all right? the windsss tighten up on this thing. of course, the airports out there. new york philly logan up in boston. dealing with winds up to 70 miles an hour. keep in mind 70 miles an hoir that's a category 1 hurricane. trees come down and power outages. you couple that with a backlog you had yesterday and the day before that and we've had over
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1,600 flights traveled. we're going to talk about chances for a white christmas coming up but whatever snow the northeast picks up today, that will stay on the ground because i don't see anything to wash it away in the immediate future. anthony, over to you. >> thanks lon. now to the fiscal cliff. the combination of tax hikes and across the board spending cuts that no one wants to have happen. the president seems to be sticking with his plan and congress seems to be in disarray. time is running out. the time is january 1st just ten days away. nancy cordes has the latest on the negotiations. >> reporter: shortly before he left for hawaii president obama urged congressional leaders to address a smaller plan to avert the fiscal cliff because his talk with speaker boehner on a smaller deal have stalled. >> i met them halfway on taxes, and i met them more than halfway
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on spending. >> reporter: that was not speaker boehner's take earlier in the day. >> what the president has proposed so far simply won't do anything to solve our spending problem. he wants more spending and more tax hikes that will hurt our economy. >> reporter: but boehner's position was weakened after he tried but failed to pass his own plan in the house. >> as you know the house did not take up the tax bill last night because we didn't have the votes to pass it. it's not the outcome that i wanted, but that was the will of the house. >> now president obama says boehner and other congressional leaders should put together a peared down package that keeps middle class tax cuts extends unemployment benefits and lays the groundwork for more debt reduction next year. >> nobody gets 100% of what they want. everybody's got to give a little bit. >> reporter: when members come back after christmas, there will be very little time to get such
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a package passed in both the house and the senate before the deadline. nancy cordes cbs news capitol hill. with it again caught up in the gun control debate this is an unusually busy holiday season in washington. so let's get some insight from the best in the business our chief washington correspondent and host of "face the nation," bob schieffer. it's always great to have you with us. good morning. >> i was wondering who you were talking about. >> i'm talking about you, bob. i want to talk about the president though. he said, call me a hopeless romantic, but i still think we can get this done. and, bob, he was talking about a comprehensive deal when he said that. is that even possible with ten days and merry christmas around the corner? >> well he basically said we'll start over after christmas. he said i want everybody to go home and have some eggnog and
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sing some christmas carols and when you come back maybe we can figure something out. right now they're back to ground zero. i think they're below ground zero. speaker boehner came to thehouse last week talking about this plan he had and he goes to the congress and can't get his own people to pass it. you know if this were a parliamentary system what happened, this would be seen as a vote of no confidence. generally in a parliamentary system they get a new leader after that. but the speaker said he's not going anywhere. other members of congress say they don't expect him to be challenged. they don't expect any kind of a coup, but what i understand is where does this put everybody? i mean if boehner comes back to the president with a proposal the president's going to say, well, yeah that's nice but do you have the votes to get that passed on your side. so i think it's going to be
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very, very difficult, and think this is -- this is going to test the president's romantic optimism as he called it because it's going to be hard. they still can do it of course but it's going to be very very difficult, i think. >> as you mentioned, this puts the speaker in an extremely difficult position. he doesn't have the full support of his party. at some point does he need to split his party to get a deal done effectively and save some face here do you think? >> that's what democrats are saying. they're saying look go talk to some democrats and get the democrats and some of your people to -- you're not going to pass this on a party line vote. that's clear from what happened. i don't know where the speaker goes from here. i don't know how he plans to do it. i don't know what their plans are. and, frankly, i'm not sure what the white house's plan is right now. i cannot believe that i have said this before. i cannot believe that either side is stupid enough to let us
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go off this fiscal cliff. now, what they're going to do to avoid that is kind of unclear to me at this point, but to take the country into an almost certain recession because you will not bend in your position it just seems to me highly irresponsible and also just not very smart. >> but bob, this reminds me of "sophie's choice" as far as speaker boehner is concerned. if he goes with the compromise then his position is on the line but if he doesn't, then we go over the fiscal cliff. >> i guess we say what's more important to speaker boehner, the country's welfare or his position? you know it's hard to know. that's probably unfair when i say that. both sides are going to have to give here. what i think is kind of discouraging about this whole thing in the boehner plan when he agreed to raise tax rates on
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the upper income people he said, let's make it over a million dollars. the president raised his a little bit. the president was ready to make deeper cuts. they were both coming together but they didn't. and they not only didn't come together they didn't even come close because the speaker didn't have the votes on his side to get that done. >> bob, tomorrow on "face the nation" you've god the head of the nra, david keene. were you surprised how aggressive the nra was in its press conference yesterday? >> you know i don't know why i was, but i really was surprised. i really thought we were going to see them put something serious on the table to kind of advance this whole situation. i mean if we saw what happened up in connecticut, anthony, that was not bad enough to make us want to try to find a serious way to go about resolving that i don't know what band is.
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>> it would be interesting what david keene has to say about that to you tomorrow. bob schieffer, as always, great talking with you. > thanks rebecca. >> you don't want to miss "face the nation." that's tomorrow morning when bob will interview the nra president, david keene. meanwhile in newtown, connecticut, the mourning and the funerals continue. elaine quijano is in newtown with more on that. good morning, elaine. >> reporter: good morning to you you, anthony. dignitaries and residents gathered for a moment of silence as the bell tolled 26 times. the solemn occasion marked one week since 20 children and six adults were killed at the sandy hook elementary school.
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nearby, the mood was somber too, as more wakes and funerals were held for the victims. meanwhile in washington the nra made its first public response since the tragedy. nra's president wayne lapierre spoke. he argued for the presence of armed guards in every american school. >> we need to have every single school in american immediately deploy a protection program, proven to work. and by that, i mean armed security. >> reporter: he took. >> questions from reporters and was interrupted twice by protesters. >> nra, stop killing our children. >> nra has blood on its hands! >> reporter: here in newtown, lapierre's suggestion of armed guards in school was mixed. andre's third grade sun survived
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the sandy hook shooting. >> there are people i'm sure who will say let's put more policemen in our school or put bulletproof doors and windows in our schools. what they could tell them would be do you want to have a shoot-out like ok corral. >> desiree's granddaughter also survived the shooting. she said the nra is on the right track. >> we're a nation of strong opinions and strong beliefs, and some of us are changing our minds though. >> reporter: three more funerals will take place today. josephine gay had just turned 7. her birthday party was supposed to take place the day after the shooting. ana marquez-greene loved to sing. her family said she danced wherever she said.
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emilie parker's family said she loved to smile and try new things. a final report could be months away. anthony? >> elaine quijano in newtown, connecticut. thanks elaine. let's talk more about this with mark. good morning. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> first of all, what was your reaction to the nra's news conference yesterday? >> i was surprised. i've been watching and i've watched guns and the nra is normally a pretty smart organization that calculates what it does very carefully and it must have done so here but i have to say the talk that lapierre gave which was not actually a press conference. questions were not allowed. seemed so totally disconnected from the reality that a country rising up for action is actually
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facing that -- it's hard to understand what's going on. i think he's going to have a real problem not just with his country but his whole membership which was not where he was. >> you mentioned that your father was a gun dealer you grew up shooting guns. but i heard you say today's nra is not your father's nra. what do you mean by that? >> well the nra, and to some extent today, is about safety training, gun courses, apartment a lot of activities that were funded and made sense from the perspective, you know, of teaching people how to use a gun in a way that was safe and it was about rights. finding for what the folks really believed in to have a gun in your home for self-defense. it's where most of the mayors have been and most of the public. most of us were happy to have
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that fight over with to decide what regulations were reasonable. the nra is a $240 million-a-year organization. i think anybody who thought they were going to have a victory and go home was wrong. the way they've reacted is to push more and more extreme laws and legislatures throughout the country to whittle away at basically even the most commonsense restriction, like for example, a gun that barely pass add law and the governor vitoed it to carry guns in day cares and places of worship and schools. >> what do you think of the statement that the only way to substitute stop bad guys with goods is to have good guys with guns. >> for example, we had gop pollster man once not
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necessarily a fan. we had him go out and talk to nra members and gun owners and he found that 47% owners think everybody should get a background check before they buy a gun. that's not the case today. wayne pierre uses every penny he has, which includes his $1.4 million salary to fight that. >> good points. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. this will be a christmas to remember for the family of jon hammar. the former marine is back in the u.s. after he was released from prison in mexico friday night. hammar was held in august after he passed into mexico with a family heirloom shotgun. that was a violation of mexican law and he faced up to 12 years in prison. president obama has asked
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massachusetts senator john kerry to be secretary of state. he would replace hillary clinton who's leaving after this term. he's served in the senate for 27 years. he was a presidential candidate in 2004. kerry should have no problem getting confirmed. police are trying to determine why a man shot and killed three people in the small central pennsylvania town of holidaysburg. one victim in friday's shooting spree was killed while decorate agriculture. hall for a christmas party. state troopers shot and killed the gunman after he rammed his car into a police car. three state troopers were injured and a shooting for the vishlg victims is planned for today. voting is under way in the second round of egypt's constitutional referendum. voters say a "yes" vote may restore normalcy there as they move from a dictatorship to a
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democracy. a no-vote would prevent morsi on getting a stranglehold on islamicislam islamist islamists. it's about 18 after the hour and now here's a look at the weather for your weekend. remember black friday? well fuhgettaboutit because today is super saturday and it's expected to be the busiest retail day of 2012 as christmas shoppers go on the hunt for those last-minute bargain. in fact, the national retail federation saying nearly three-quarters of the american consumer, 73%, still have shopping to do. so what should you be buying and when should you buy it?
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we well we have shirley with us. >> thanks for having me on cbs. >> retailers are getting more and more sophisticated. what is this dynamic pricing? >> what we're seeing is the shopping experience is changing before our eyes. big box retarms are setting prices online and changing the prices often by the minute. they know exactly how much they can charge us and they're doing it. they know they can test us. as a consumer it's hard to know when to buy sometimes. >> how do they know when to put them in place. >> they have an algorithm in place to know how much to charge you. they look at the competitor's charging. there's more competition than ever for the "buy" button. even wants your business right now. >> which category do you see this most of the time? >> electronics. if you watch, you can get a
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fantastic deal tablets, laptop laptops, really, anything across the electronics category. you can get a great deal by watching prices go up and down. >> it's interesting because they have been using the internet to compare prices and use it against the stores but now they're figuring out ways to use this, correct? >> yeah. if you're a smart shopper, you can get a great deal these days. >> it's interesting when you talk about electronics being right for this. when you see the disparity in prices, it is very revealing. >> it is. you know between a few minutes, it goes up or down $100, especially on some of the laptops and some of the tvs. >> it's incredible. >> why is the time of day important to pricing, you know whether you change the price at 8:30 or noon or something like that? >> as a consumer it's hard to know why the price is important. really what they're trying to do is see how much they can charge
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you at different times of day. but if the competitor drops a price, you'll see a retailer drop the priechls for the holidays we saw very aggressive price wars with 30% of the products. the price were changing intraday numerous times. so you click that refresh button and it's a different price. >> best time of day to shop? >> you know, it really depends on the category and what's happening in the market you really need technology to know the best time and now you can set price alerts so you always know when to get the best price. when you're in-store you can see where the best price is and negotiate it. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up if you another a holiday boost for your spirits, we found the man. >> and later, holiday music from the pay a know guys. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."
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hello. this is major pamela townsend from bagram air station in afghanistan. i want to say hello to aunld my friends, mama and papa brown, in d.c., how i love and miss you. god bless you. aunld my friends, mama and papa brown, in d.c., how love and miss you. god bless you. launld my friends, mama and papa brown, in d.c., how i love and miss you. god bless you. friends, mama and papa brown, in d.c., how i love and miss you. god bless you. in d.c., how i love and miss you. god bless you.
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that's a beautiful picture. this has been a tough holiday season. >> it really has. >> it tests a significant test of faith. it comes on the heels of an incomprehensible act of violence, the massacre of children in newtown, connecticut that a lot of people asking why, how this can be. just ahead, we'll be talking with three prominent religious leaders with different faiths about dealing with tragedy in the midst of what's supposed to be a season of joy and piece. a lot of people are asking themselves right now, i'm being tested. what does this mean and what does it mean for my faith. we'll be back to discuss. this is "cbs this morning saturday." stay with us.
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we've been talking about this extreme weather. you were discussing it off the show. we've been talk lon, you've been been.ar seems to be off the richter scale. >> first of all, the big weather headline is going to be sandy. we're not done with the final numbers but it could be the most catastrophic storm dollar-wise to ever hit the country. look at the other ones. the world wildfire season in history, the drought. and you can't forget the winter that we've had, 2012's winter which was incredibly mild the second and warmest. so a lot of people are going to
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throw out the global warming thing, and i'll tell you. in my profession -- and, look i've been doing it almost 20 years. it's almost split down the middle. always heating up, cooling down. a bona fide global warming situation is what melted the ice age. are we in that trend? you know what? it's too soon to tell. that goes over tens of thousands of years. >> right. >> i do know this much. we're not helping the situation, all the fossil fuels we're burning. that's affecting things. but in terms of the weather year, i've about never had one like this one. >> this year between the weather and the baby, you probably never slept less in a year either. >> you're right. our new baby a couple months old when sandy came to the area and my wife loses me for almost a whole week. it's something else. hey, we're not done yet. it's just started. we have the second coldest in
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history. >> a lot to look forward to guys. hopefully you're having a good weekend somewhere warm.
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welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason that and i'm rebecca jarvis. >> take a look at this. he calls himself sandy claus. he's a guy from brooklyn who decided he had to do something to salvage christmas for kids whose homes were hit by sandy. >> michael started out with money out of his own pocket but when word got out what he was doing, posted on facebook the contributions starting pouring in. >> great important work from sandy claus, helping to restore
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faith in the human spirit. but first our top story this half hour people's faith are always tested during times of tragedy, and this year at christmas coming on the heels of the newtown, connecticut, horror it's a difficult season for many. >> so many are mourning. the rev right hand calvin butts and president of sunni college. and rabbi and. good morning to you all. thank you all for being here. let me start with you. first i think it would be easy for a lot of people's faiths to feel challenged after what happened in newtown last week. what do you say to people like that? >> well, it is true that you're challenged. all of us are challenged. and your faith should help you to deal with the challenge. in other words, should give you a new perspective. and in the midst of so much
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challenge. for instance in the county faith, we celebrate the birth of jesus, but we also remember during the birth and celebration of angels simg ss singing, infants were murdered because hered sent out a decree that all babies would be killed. so there's always going to be a chamg to the faith by tragedy in our world, so our faith tells us to look toward the hope. for instance when you're up on a mountain you see rocks and trees and raw earth. but when you step back, it looks majestic. in the world you will have tribulation. but we sa in our faith, be of good cheer for he has overcome the world. >> stepping back can be very difficult for people and that's really one of the big questions how does one take that step back? >> i think the first thing is much like reverend said. if your faith is exactly the
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same in the face of murdered children then something's wrong with your fakts, all right? it's an illusion. you're repressing stuff. your faith should be broken by this kind of tragedy and the kinded of evil that we see. so the first thing is a broken faith is not a bad fachlkt it's part of the experience. and then the question is do we do theology at this time? are we trying to like protect and defend a god that wasn't there for some of us? no, i think what we really have to do is say how do we act in a way that we wish god would have acted. and if you act that way with more compassion, more love more karks and being concerned with people more vulnerable than you, then you begin to argue back faith and trust. >> i had a jesuit priest in college says faith isn't strong unless it's been tested or challenged. >> strong as a broken heart is our tradition. >> raquel there was a new
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research that came out. one in six have no religion. you work with muslim women. do you see erosion? >> there's two schools of thought on this the vast majority of american muslims don't, in fact attend mosques. there are a lot of reasons for that. our mainstream institutions we were talking about this earlier, has seemed to lost relevance for everyday muslims. for women, spaces aren't always as accommodating as they should be. they might see the imam or mosque as an external funding source that mean as what is taught there isn't necessarily quite in line with euro own values so what we're seeing not necessarily an erosion of faith but they're finding new ways of
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fellow fellowship together and more reasons to bring people to the table. >> i think that's the key insight here. we're seeing two things happen diminishment of mainstream relidge. fastest group is nones, n-o-n-e-s and praise. this has to do with a mistrusted institution, mixing and blending of people. people can speak across boundaries where they never could. people can enter other people's faith systems, borrow other's resources and taste their food not only their physical food but soul food so to speak, so what you have a is test. >> it's been a stressful holiday for a lot of people. what do you tell people in a sentence or two, how do you find peace this holiday season?
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>> i tell you one thing. if i could do something for newtown, this is what i would do. i would find money and fly in parents from columbine. they should be talking to parents from newtown. more dramatically for me, i'd going to birmingham to find the parents who are still living of the little girls who were bombed in that church and i would fly them to newtown. those who have tasted tragedy are the best ones to speak to those who are going through it at this moment. >> for newtown, i look at the stories across religions about where these -- when these great miracles occurred. if you look at judaism, and others, have come after great triechlt when jesus was born it wasn't luxurious, it wasn't
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comfortable, it wasn't easy. when the light was preserved for eight days that was after great struggle. and when water was preserved for ishmael, islam, that was a great struggle. >> we have to do both things. one, we can't allow despair and cynicism to win out. that's the singest and most important thing you can do that. the way to do that is no cheap grace, no cheap sent mentality. if you're watching tv and you're not in newtown and you're feeling everything is over the job to do is do something active to help someone more vulnerable than you. >> thanks so much all of you. happy holidays. thanks so much for being here. >> now here's lonnie with another check of the weather. >> okay, guys. good morning to you. good morning, everybody. i've got to tell you, the two november countries dealing with storms. we talkeden this earlier. that was our lead story. there's going to be another day
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of flight delays. in the pacific northwest it's just rolling onshore. take a look. it's a snow maker. i'm not talking 3,000 feet or above. gusting winds, maybe 40 miles an hour and winds associated with that southeastern storm. some area could be seeing it. check out the profile reading. 37 degrees. look at tallahassee, florida, at the same hour, 7:00 a.m., 27 degrees. what's wrong with that picture, right, guys? that's a quick picture of the national weather. hero ee hero here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend.
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27. the oranges are freezing in tallahassee, rebecca. >> hard to imagine. i hope they have winter coats. sometimes they don't. coming up next, a great re reminder of the goodness. an amazing update on one of the most inspiring stories we have seen this year. a young man who was definitely ready for some football. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."
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pure hershey's. following the tragedy in newtown, connecticut we decided to revisit a truly uplifting story we brought you earlier this year. >> it's about a young man in massachusetts who this year fulfilled his dream of playing for his high school football team, overcoming huge obstacles. as seth doane reports, there's glory in it but mostly this is
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a real story of guts. >> do you want to wear your red shirt today? >> reporter: even before 7:00 a.m. most of the talk at his home is about sports. >> do you want to bring your pads to practice or no? >> yeah i would. >> reporter: he heads off to school in his wellesley high school varsity jacket. >> it's my game you know. >> reporter: football is? >> football is more of my game than sitting around on the couch all day. >> reporter: but there's no football team at the nearby cotting school where he is enrolled. it's a school for disabilities. >> he is grateful for where he lives. there was a period where we live thad we thought, oh my god, our baby is going to die. >> reporter: he was born a healthy baby but he was left with sustained damage. he was diagnosed wither is bral er
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iscerebral palsy. almost from the beginning she remembers his passion for sports. >> yellow ball. everything was ball in sports. >> reporter: by middle school will had started attending wellesley raiders football games, cheering from the sidelines. he spends most of his time in a wheelchair because it's just too painful to walk. he can run in small spurts. >> attaboy. >> reporter: for years now, the raiders' coaching staff has allowed him to participate in practices. in the last years he hasn't miss mder than one or two games either here and home or away. he's officially listed on the roster as a super fan. but earlier this fall he made it into the game as a player. heading into the raiders' final home game of the season, coaches agreed to let will take the first snap of the game.
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>> he got to be part of that first play. >> yeah. >> what did that feel like? how was that? >> it was great. >> why, great? it's just -- you know it's my passion. my dad did it in high school and, you know i follow my idol. >> reporter: wellesley act lettic director john brown has been watching will root for the raiders for six seasons. >> reporter: why was it so important to let him in this game? >> knowing that he's out there watching every day, the other kids being able to play you know, we said you know he needs to get a taste of this. the problem now is he wants to be in every game. >> reporter: liz always worried about managing her son's expectation. she wasn't expecting to have to manage her own. >> it was very emotional. you know he teaches me a lot
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about having faith and believing in things that can happen. in his mind he was running back, and that fulfilled a dream that he's had his whole life. >> reporter: what is it about football that you like so much? >> it takes heart. that's what it takes. and it's called raider pride. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning saturday," seth doane, wellesley, massachusetts. >> love that story. will recently had surgery on both his feet but he's feeling much better and his mom liz says that will's favorite new england patriot, ron gronkowski who's number 87, is also recovering from surgery. so this holiday season they're on the dl together and we wish them both a merry christmas.
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and now let's get into the spirit of the season with holiday music from the piano guys. >> call this two guys with three kings. call this the piano guys. ♪ [ playing "we three kings" ] ♪
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it was like a red rash... very sore looking kinda blistery. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i was a firefighter for 24 years. but, i have never encountered such a burning sensation until i had the shingles. i remember it well. i was in the back yard doing yard work. i had this irritation going on in my lower neck. i changed shirts because i thought there was something in the collar of the shirt irritating my neck. and i couldn't figure out what was going on. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. i always thought shingles was associated with people... a lot older than myself. i can tell you from experience it is bad. it's something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story visit
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shinglesinfo.com i just want to wish all my friends and family happy holidays and merry christmas. >> i'm currently serving in the hellman province in afghanistan. i want to say merry christmas to
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my family and friends in connecticut. miss you and i'll see you soon. >> that looks like daily plaza in chicago. >> is that where it was? >> i used to work outside there. they have their nice little festivities set up. that was a nice little memory for me. >> lon youspeaking of memories, you were telling us about something in school. you had to sing something in a different language. >> it was my sophomore year in spanish class and i had to translate and perform "white christmas" in spanish. >> blanco.
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>> navidad blanco. everybody. [ singing in spanish ] >> that's incredible lonnie. who knew. >> we were talking about christmases past and holidays past. you say you were down to your grandparents' in naples florida. >> you're a minnesota grow. >> yes, i am from minneapolis. we fly from minneapolis to naples, florida. we're going to have this warm warm winter. it snows. and in minneapolis it was warmer. it was a freak thing. luckily we had our winter coats from the airplane. >> most folks don't have it. >> why would you. >> if it does you think you're going to run quickly to the department story departmentstore store they're not selling them. minnesota and naples that's a bigger change. >> we're sorry for all the
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people who flew down there last night. not looking good. at least it will be christmassy. >> and the orange juice is cold. >> we'll be right back.
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welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm rebecca jar vus. coming up this half hour, is "zero dark 30" the telling hunt for osama bin laden. >> and who's at the front of the scandal? we'll tell you. and a chat with the man who brought "les mis" to the big
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screen. first our top story, the gun debate is back up in washington but it raised big questions about another issue as well. mental illness. the shooters in tucson arizona, and aurora colorado are believed to have significant mental problems. although that's not necessarily true about adam could be. >> it's amazing to me we treat diseases above the neck totally differently than we treat diseases below the neck. so we have 15 million children and teenagers in the united states who have a real psychiatric disorder and the important news about that is 1440% occurs before the age of 14 and
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75% before age 24. some people are asking the question now you know science has come a long way and we know a lot more about mental illness and health in general. has health changed though. >> has our mental illness changed in this society or are we recognizing it more? >> we're definitely recognizing it more. if you take someone that's helpless and hopeless and that can occur when someone is depressed or frustrated and doesn't seek -- or someone's got a disorder and is about to go through the juvenile justice system, they feel so helpless no other skills they lash out. this year alone, 5,000 teenagers will commit suicide. 600,000 will attempt suicide and will need an emergency room visit. that statistic is 40 years old. for the last 40 years that's
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happened every year. we have a way of just ignoring this, of saying these kids are bad seeds or they're just very sick, when in reality, these are our children our sons and daughters, but just more importantly they sit in classes next to our sons and daughters around the world. >> one thing which joe biden's team will be looking at is mental health. what should that they be looking at? >> i think we need a whole thank. we need the fact that pediatricians have to be better trained at doing mental health checkups the same way you check someone's heart and weight and height. pediatricians need to know how to check up on someone's mood their activity level, their interests, how they sleep. and on top of that we have to train them through treat the most simple and common of mental disorders. we also have to make sure teachers are aware of what's normal and not normal. if a kid looks odd, a teacher has to reach out and not be
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afraid or hope the kid will disappear or the symptom will pass. in "the new york times" this week psychiatrist richard friedman argued it's impossible to predict violence in individuals. do you agree with that? and if so then what? >> we know that people who are suffering from a mental illness are more at risk for hurting themselves than others. that might not mean violence outside but violence toward yourself. the part we can all be reassured by is 1% of all the homicides and suicides that occur in this age group are school shooting bus doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about kids who attempt suicide. more importantly they're more likely to be bullied, more likely to be a bully, have more academic failure, substance abuse, and at the end of the day are more likely to be in juvenile justice or employed. it's our responsibility to care for them in the same way if they had an outbreak of tuberculosis
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or years ago polio or 25 years ago aids. >> thanks. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. pope benedict pardoned his former butler moments ago. he was convicted last october of stealing the pope's personal papers and then giving them to a journalistist. he's been serving an 18-month jail sentence for one of the vatican's worst security breaches in history. he said he leaked the material to expose what he described as quote, the evil and corruption inside the catholic church. the pope also pardoned a second vatican employee tied to the thefts. the first family in -- is in president's native hawaii for a christmas holiday vacation. air force one arrive. the family will stay at their vacation home on oahu. he plans to return to washington after christmas to work on his scaled down version of his plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> this will be a very merry christmas for some lucky
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spaniards, even with their nation in the grip of a severe economic downturn. the top payout is about half a million dollars and the winnings are tax-free. all right. it's about six minutes after the hour. time now for another check of the weather with lonnie quinn. hello, lonnie. >> good morning, anthony and rebecca. good morning, everybody. we've got this big storm in the northeast. yes, there's snow out there. but even buffalo will pick up eight inches up to ten inches. not the biggest snowstorm but it's a huge wind maker. we have another system moving onshore around the pacific northwest. that snow is from 3,000 feet and above. you're going to pick up that half foot range. i want to show you who's going have know on the ground. oh fishably for a white christmas you need one inch on the ground. it's very likely. then you have central rockies,
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pushing into northern new england. you go south of that which would include places like new york city philadelphia 20% or higher and then it's just not going to happen when you get down to the mississippi and tennessee valleys. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. and a very happy holiday to all of you. rebecca, over to you. >> and to you lonnie. "zero dark 30" is a realistic chronicle about the long but successful manhunt. >> i have bad news. i'm not your friend. i'm not going to help you. i'm going to break you.
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do you have any questions? >> the movie has drawn acclaim from critics and sharp criticism from washington over its depiction of its use of torture as a key source of information leading to bin laden's discovery and death. "cbs this morning's" charlie rose sat down with the movie's director kathryn bigelow. >> there were many methods used to utilize detainee information. some was electronics track and trace, good old-fashioned boots on the ground. >> and torture. >> it's great to have you with us. good morning. >> good morning. >> if you look at this movie, zero dark 30, it begins with torture. that's how the information is obtained in getting to osama bin laden. do you really think this was going on at the time and should
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it have been? >> well, i think certainly it really was going on at the time. but you have to remember that a movie is a 2 1/2-hour snapshot of what was a decade-long investigation. and i think that compression of time distorts the reality of how this kind of intelligence is actually obtained. >> so you don't think as much of it was obtained in this way? is that what you're saying? >> well, thing that intelligence is obtained that way, and the movie sort of highlights enhanced interrogation as a method, but the reality is intelligence gathering is a multi-source operation, and it's not a game of jenga where, you know they're waterboarding sheikh mohammed and he says it's the 133rd time it happens to him and all of a sudden we've got bin laden. >> in the movie it's depicted over multiple years that the information is obtained and
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ultimately leads to finding osama bin laden. there's a team that carries out the killing. like yourself, you've been in this position you've been waterboarded previously. do you consider it a form of torture? >> it is unee kiev ohably torture. essentially the closest description i can give you is this, like being shackled to the bottom of the pool and not being able to get out. >> in 2002 it was banned. do you suspect it may be going on still? >> i do not and i hope we've close thad chapter in our history. >> what about the old practice of flying our prisoners to other countries where torture is not frowned upon? >> the movie there's actually a scene where mya in the cia says
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to one of the detainees, we can send you else where or stay in pakistan and he wants to talk to her in pakistan because he doesn't want to go elsewhere. >> i can't comment on the extraordinary rendition which is the technical term for what you're describing. certainly we know it happened but, again, the real premise here is we're conditioning the american public to the ideal that torture works. when the vast reality, most intelligence professionals will tell you hardin teargations like waterboarding or anything like that have to be corroborateing by soft interrogations. whatever you get in the interrogation information, that's just information. the other, that has to be done through other means. >> thanks very much. coming up next from sports to politics to scandal, the best
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everything, covering 55 wide-ranging topics for 2012 and here with some of his favorite highs and lows from the past year is "time" magazine's senior editor jeff kluger. how does the group at "time" put the list together? it must be a huge undertaking. >> it is a huge undertaking. it occurs over the curse of the year because they accumulate over the year. other people in science, politics, sport, start role-gathering over the koufrs the year and by the owned testif year we have a much longer list than ten and have to distill it down to ten. >> we start with top campaign gaffes. >> what's at the top? >> the beloved joe biden speaking before an audience made up of a great african-american
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folks speak about putting you back in chains. the thing with joe is the gaffes come with joe in the same way that calories and fat come with cheesecake. it's just what makes it delicious. in joe's case he finishes off with with your help in north carolina we can finish. he was in a different state. >> the one that clearly blew the doors off the others was rush limbaugh and sandra fluke, a third year georgetown university law school student who spoke before congress on birth control and rush had unkind unchivalrous comments. advertisers fled and rush issued a qualified apology. sandra wound up getting a speaking lot at the dnc. so it was a good day for her, bad day for rush. >> top scandal this year.
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>> top scandal. i like to think of this one as the exemplore of it. general petraeus you can't do much better than that critical mass. >> like a movie. so many amazing sports moments over the last year. hard to choose one. >> there were good ones and bad ones. one on top of our list with the tragic one, the inevitable downfall of lance armstrong. >> he came in third but here he's a winner. >> lance gave at the office in a lot of different ways. his seven tour de france titles were always improbable but the man worked hard. he dealt with the rumors of juicing over the years to the point there was a nike commercial in which he said people ask me what i'm on he says i'm on my bike six hour as day, what are you on. turns out he was on something.
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11 of his teammates ultimately testified against him. he stepped down. the message to kids on biking is ride clean, boys and girls. >> top tweet of the year. >> there are billions. >> what a fun job to go through all the tweets. >> on election night president obama sent out three tweets. two of them actually had b.o. at the end which is the indicator that they were really sent by him, by the presidential fingers and the first two got a couple hundred thousand retweets each but the one that blew the doors off was four more years and it was that picture of the president and michelle in a deeply meaningful embrace. the funny thing is it was outdoors summertime picture clearly not a fresh shot from election night. didn't matter. it captured the love between the two and the ecstasy they felt that night. >> jeffrey kluger a lot of love
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he is the reigning king of the great american songbook michael feinstein. >> and we're delighted he could stop by "cbs this morning saturday" with a bit of christmas cheer. here he is michael feinstein, with "have yourself a merry little christmas." ♪ christmas future is far away christmas past is past ♪ ♪ christmas present is here today
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bringing joy that will last ♪ ♪ have yourself a merry little christmas let your heart be light ♪ ♪ next year all our troubles will be out of sight ♪ ♪ have yourself a merry little christmas make the yuletide gay ♪ ♪ next year all our troubles will be miles away ♪ ♪ here we are as in olden days happy golden days of yore ♪ ♪ faithful friends
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who are dear to us will seem near to us once more ♪ ♪ some day soon we all will be together ♪ ♪ if the fates allow ♪ ♪ but till then we'll have to muddle through somehow ♪ ♪ so have yourself a merry little christmas now ♪ ♪ ♪ here we are as in olden days happy golden days of yore ♪ ♪ faithful friends who are
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dear to us gather near to us once more ♪ ♪ some day soon we all will be together if the fates allow ♪ ♪ hang a shining star upon the highest bough ♪ ♪ and have yourself a merry little christmas now ♪ coming up a visit with the man behind the broadway super
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hit "les mis" opening up on the big screen christmas day. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." you going to the movies over the holidays? >> with a new baby at home no. >> it will probably be ten years when you'll see something that's not a cartoon. >> it's funny. i'd love to see the "les mis" movie. are you on board with it? what do you think? >> i'm really interested to see what they've done with it. it looks interesting. we talk about this with cameron mackintosh coming up. it looks very intriguing. it doesn't look like anything else i've seen. >> there are a lot of great movies that are out this year. i just saw "zero dark thirty" ahead of the segment we did. i watched it last night.
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>> was it intense? >> extremely intense. i watched it with my sister. she was struggling to watch it because it is violent and it does show a lot of very gritty scenes. i thought it was fascinating. it was interesting because we saw -- scott pelley interviewed one of the navy s.e.a.l.s a while back. keeping that in mind i was thinking i remember this from scott pelley's interview. >> i need -- i like -- i want to see that. i need something a little more seasonal. >> such as? >> democrata lighter fare?" >> "charlie brown christmas" and "the grinch". >> "every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." >> that's a good one that i also like "home alone." >> "it's a wonderful life." >> classic.
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>> stay with us. we'll be right back.
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his music "less miserables", it's destined to become a huge hit. coming up we'll introduce producer cameron mackintosh. welcome back to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm thoemt mason. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis. also coming up this half hour chef sal skog na me low. first over to lonnie quinn for a final check of the weather.
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>> what. one more time with that french accent. >> "les mis"er rob joorks. >> the satellite and radar picture both. one gone but big winds for you today. the other one getting its act together. that will be around the central rockies by tomorrow. i want to talk about some towns that have countered that christmas feel. i know we're a couple of days away. it's almost here. i've got jolly georgia at 52. snow kentucky at 35 today and elf north carolina. you don't want to forget elf north carolina kudos to you guys 4rks 2 degrees. that's a look at the national picture. a little bit of a festive feel. here's a closer look at the weekend.
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>> hey look it. eggnog utah, south with go to newport beach, california, where they're hosting a big event. this is part of my shout-out, new port 61 degrees. let me tell you about the event. they're hosting the 104th annual christmas boat parade. this is hailed as one of the top holiday happenings in the country. you have multi-million-dollar yachts and kayaks and canoes. the parade winds its way for 14 miles often the harbor and draws in an audience of a million people or more. it's over five nights. we want to thank everybody for watching "cbs this morning saturday." that's going to do it for me guys. anthony and rebecca, happy holidays to you. >> thanks lon.
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in the past 45 years cameron mackintosh has produced more stage musicals than anyone in history including "cats" "phantom of the opera," and less miserables." it star ss ann hathaway and russell crowe. ♪ ♪ do not forget my name ♪ ♪ do not forget me ♪ 2-4-6-0-1 2-4-6-0-1. >> i'm getting chills. we had the rare opportunity to sit down with cameron mackintosh on the stage at broad way's imperial theater where "les mis" had a 13-year run.
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>> we're sitting in the imperial theater where "les mis" ran for 13 years? >> yes, indeed. it was a very, very happy time. >> you love this theater. >> i do. >> why. >> it's ghot a great atmosphere. it's not too big but you've about got great stage. you've got the best. it's a wonderful rapport between the actors and the audience. >> how does it feel to have opened it as a play and now as a movie? internally is there a difference? >> yes and no. the thing is the play which we reinvented from the french because originally it was put on as sort of a spectacle in france. i didn't see that. and i met the man whose inspiration it was. and we decided to turn it back into the musical we know. so when tom hooper said he wanted to direct the film he actually sent us to work to redo it. so for us it was going back in time in a way to reinvent it
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because we didn't want to just film the musical. we didn't thank was going to work. what we wanted to do is take all the material and remake it as a movie which happened to be a musical. >> and you chose to do it really in the hardest way you possibly could with all of the actors singing live. >> i don't -- it wasn't hard. i mean it was new. but i instinctively felt it couldn't be done any other way. i have with my concert the 10th anniversary and the 25th anniversary. it will be broadcast on pbs and screened live. i've always done it live. i had a feeling it could work. wit as bihm gamblee it was a big gamble with the film studio. >> what were those conversations like? >> actually lit wasn't bad. when i met tom, i didn't know him at the time because at the time it hadn't opened when he asked to see me and he said how passionate he was to record it
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live and i felt the same. i thought, well if the director and producer felt they wanted to do it then we would get a chance artistically. if you think "les mis" rob was instructive, how could you possibly record the acting in your voice three months before you met your fellow actors or direct it. i don't think it was possible. >> were you convinced you were going to find the actors who were willing to do this. >> i was pretty sure we could. one of the things of getting old, you know andrew lloyd webber and i since the 1980s have had extraordinarily wide success with our musicals and it's bred a whole hunger of actors who want to make musicals. thank god it didn't because
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we've literally grown the cast, this amazing cast for this movie. i mean a lot of them simply weren't born when the show opened here. >> one of the things that's extraordinary is the camera is frequently up in the front of the face of actors and actresses. for those not used to singing, it's got be intimidating. >> i think once they got in front of the camera the actors were used to it. when we were auditioning, tom would be doing this all the way through, so they knew. >> they get used to it. >> sort of they were oblivious to it. i think -- that was over months of auditioning and then rehearsal and everything like that. so it wasn'ted the shock as if they would have gone in cold. you can really almost get into the heart and mind of the actor and that's a wonderful plus. and the other great advantage of the film is we only have 28
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actors amazing actors playing 300 parts on the stage. but in the film of course we have everyone that should be in each scene. so you're able to put actors in many other scenes which allows do you tell the story in far more detail and that's why we were -- a lot of people know the show are like oh, my god, i really understand now. >> up next more on "les mis" and the big screen. our conversation with cameron mackintosh continues on "cbs this morning saturday." it's that time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind.
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we're back with more with cameron mackintosh. >> "les mis" is opening on christmas day. we spoke with him at imperial theater where it played for 13 years. what is it do you think, about the story where it's translated to audiences around the world for all of these years? >> i think it's simply victor hugo is a genius. you know it's probably one o the greatest ever written. he wrote at the time. i didn't just write a novel for the french. he wrote about characters that transcend time. they're as contemporary today as they with. because of that every character
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talks to every nation in every country and in every decade and it will continue usually renew itself. >> you know the theater inside and out. this was your first real adventure in film. how did you find it? >> well a relief in the end. we pulled it off. but, you know it is both similar, far more similar in some ways than i thought because, in fact it needed to be a collusion between my music team. it was headed by the wonderful composer. and there pulling together a score and an orchestration, which matched tom hooper's vision amazing vision of it. >> i know it's a little bit like asking you if you have a favorite child, but of all of your favorites, do you have a favorite? >> no. i certainly don't have a favorite but what i expect is
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"les miserables" of all my children is probably the one that went the longest and that has as much to do with the wonderful show. it's inspired by which begat it all 27 years ago but finally it's because of victor hugo. victor hugo wrote a story that will never go out of date and thank god the musical is a wonderful complement to it. >> what haven't you done that you would like to try your hand at? >> oh. i'll still like to do some climbing in a few mountains. it's not in the theater, i can assure you. i'm so happy that what i'm doing is still loved by the public. i can't tell you how extraordinary it is that after decades and decades, "miss saigon," "my fair lady," mary
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poppins," they're all great shows. >> is there a secret formula? >> i suppose the only thing if you flicked over my career is that instinctively i have chosen or i have been inspired by the writings of authors based on classic material. i think my gift is to spot the brilliance of others and then make it even better. >> the brilliance is to find the story. >> it's always the most difficult thing with musicals. i remember the great one. they said, csenor, what makes a great opera. >> he says a great bre v r erbravada. all the stories are the backbone of all the ones for the best
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stories. >> cameron mackintosh thank you so much for your time and being with us this morning. >> thanks. >> a reminder that "les miserables" opens in theaters across the country. >> it never gets old. coming up next christmas dinner italian-american style. chef skogcognamillo shows us how. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." ♪ i -- i got it i got it made ♪ ♪ i got it made i got it made ♪ ♪ i got it made fresh at subway ♪ ♪ breakfast made the way i say ♪ [ male announcer ] at subway, you got it made. try a steak, egg white & cheese, tricked out any way you want. subway. eat fresh.
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yyyyf generation of a chef at patsy's restaurant. patsy i love it. >> a lot of people love it celebrities, of course frank favorite of frank sinatra and many other
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celebrities. chef scognamillo joins us with his meatballs. it's so hard to be sitting over there and sitting over here. what have we got exactly? >> that's the idea. the ultimate christmas dish is the meatball lasagna. it's been on the menu since jay one. my grandfather, patsy was the original chef and my dad took of and therch i took over in 1985. it's like unwrapping a christmas present. each layer a little cheese meatball, and sauce. it reminds me of family. this these are the dishes we would cook at home. we used to be closed on mondays. now we're open seven days a week, so monday was our sunday and it would always be at grandma and grandpa's house. >> happy birthday to your dad
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who turned 8 0rks by0, by the way. >> you're so close. what's it like to have three generations? >> i actually took television and film production in school because i didn't think i with us going do it. my friends said, what are you going to school for, you're going to work with your family at the restaurant. until i graduated at st. john's and i couldn't get a job, my father said would you like to cook? it's a great life skill. >> i have to tell the family was there. he was down and out and it was the day before thanksgiving at
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patsy's by himself having lunn and he said to my grandfather patsy, please sit with me i don't want to sit alone at lunch. he said, i'm going to come tomorrow. book a table for one. my grandfather wrote in the book, we're closed. he showed up the next day. there was no one in the place. patsy's a little quiet. my grandfather said what are you going do it's thanksgiving. he found out later in life my grandfather opened it especially for him. he was a special friend to us. >> that's an extraordinary story. >> we're so lucky. because of him, so many other people have come. if you look at him, we have pictures on our wall of celebrities and all of them can be traced directly to frank sinatra. >> would you sign our dish while you're rear. >> i love this. >> wonderful. chef sal thanks so much. for more from chef scognamillo
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now here's norah o'donnell with a look at what's happening on monday on "cbs this morning." >> good morning. on monday we'll celebrate christmas eve with billy crystal and melissa tomei. they'll tell you hoye they became the father #daughter team on "parental guidance." >> travel editor peter greenberg will tell you where to go to have a truly great time on new year's eve. and before we leave you, we want to show you the people who put the show on every day. cheers lon, cheer is bec, cheers sal. cheers to you. >> have a very merry christmas, everyone. be safe be well. >> cheer, cheer. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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wow. when you look at pictures like that there's nowhere like new york city for the holiday. >> we should do the frank sinatra toast. >> we did it many times with myself and the scognamillo family. may you live to be 105 and may the last voice you hear be mine. >> these great. >> sal, is that a red sauce or a gravy? >> red sauce. >> i'm thinking grave is what goes on turkey. >> there's a big argument over that. i'm not going to get into it.
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graev gravy with meat sauce with others. >> i don't know. i've already had one piece of lasagna at 9:00 in the morning. >> you're my go-to place. i lived right across the store. i'd walk out my door and fall into your restaurant. >> we'd love to have you back. we're so lucky that people have come for years and years the way our tradition is of people generations working there. >> what do you think? what is the secret? so many restaurants -- don't laugh. how have you stayed around? >> i think the most important thing is the family is always there. the family,my cousin my dad who's still working and we make sure things are right and we make you feel like you're farmly. it sounds corny, but these are the dishes grandma and grandpa used to cook at home. >> it's like a tourist spot. >> so many people come and they
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doppler. a big soaker for the holiday weekend. we're tracking all the rain on our live high def doppler. >> roadways are welt out there. watch out. a high wind advisory in effect now. a live look at i-80. white christmas on tap for sierra. it is 7:00 saturday morning december 22. the world did not end. thanks for joining us. i'm anne makovec. we ever our eye

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